It’s hard to believe, but here we are: CNCF turns 10, Kubernetes is in its teenage years, and KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025 is set to land in Atlanta this November.
The Debug Trap: Why Smart Engineers Waste Hours on Trivial Problems
Last month, I watched three senior engineers burn four hours debugging a “mysterious” Kubernetes issue that turned out to be a kubectl version upgrade. The same week, another team spent an entire night hunting phantom load…
Securing the Node: A Primer on Cilium’s Host Firewall
When discussing Kubernetes network security, much of the attention focuses on pod-to-pod traffic, ingress controllers, and service meshes. But what about the underlying nodes themselves, the very foundation on which our workloads run? The attack surface…
Cloud Native Live: Network-level and Identity-based Observability with Calico Open Source
Don’t let your Kubernetes environment be a mystery! Gain the visibility you need to keep things running smoothly. This session dives into why network observability is key in Kubernetes, and includes a live demo showing how…
Beyond Terraform Modules: Infrastructure Design by Contract
It’s 2AM. You’re staring at a failed deployment pipeline, trying to figure out why your EKS cluster can’t find the right subnets. You’ve checked the variables, verified the outputs, and triple-checked your depends_on statements. Everything looks…
Cloud Native Live: Bringing Agentic AI to Cloud Native with kagent and Kyverno
Let’s stop babysitting clusters and build AI agents to operate and govern for us! Kagent, a new CNCF project, enables simple declarative development of Kubernetes-native AI agents for any cloud native projects. This session will show…
Jaeger at 10: Forged in Community, Reborn in OpenTelemetry
In the fast-paced world of software, reaching 10 years is a testament to a project’s resilience, utility, and community strength. Half a decade ago, we celebrated Jaeger’s fifth anniversary, marveling at its growth from a nascent…
Announcing Kyverno Release 1.15!
Kyverno 1.15 makes Kubernetes policy management more powerful, extensible, and user-friendly. We are thrilled to announce the release of Kyverno 1.15.0, continuing our mission to make policy management in Kubernetes environments more modular, performant, and user-friendly….
Building a Scalable, Flexible, Cloud-Native GenAI Platform with Open Source Solutions
AI workloads are complex, and unmanaged complexity kills velocity. Your architecture is the key to mastering it. As generative AI (GenAI) becomes foundational to modern software products, developers face a chaotic new reality, juggling different APIs…
Metal3.io becomes a CNCF incubating project
The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to accept Metal3.io as a CNCF incubating project. Metal3.io joins a growing ecosystem of technologies tackling real-world challenges at the edge of cloud native infrastructure. What is Metal3.io?…